From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 13:13:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14210 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.tol.it (mail.tin.it [194.243.154.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14189 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter@tin.it) Received: from dumbwinter.ecomotor.it (a-bu3-15.tin.it [212.216.1.142]) by mail.tol.it (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA12317 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:13:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 2313 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jun 1998 20:12:06 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:12:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni X-Sender: molter@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it To: CyberPeasant cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to program the serial interface? In-Reply-To: <199806152101.RAA29351@lucy.bedford.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, CyberPeasant wrote: > Marco Molteni wrote: > > > > I'm writing a user-level program to interface a DEC TU58, which is a > > state-of-the-art ;-) tape drive; it uses a 256 KB cartridge. > > > > The interface to it is a RS-232, and I'm asking how do I program the PC > > serial interface with FreeBSD? Are there any manual pages or some docs? > > Yikes, what an antique! :-) > I'd check around on some Dec-oriented places. try http://www.decus.org > They have some archives on DEC arcana. Maybe ask on > port-pmax@netbsd.org. Do you actually have documentation for what that > Dectape wants to have? Hi Dave, I think I wasn't able to state correctly my question in english :-) I don't need the specs for the TU58, I need to know how to program a serial interface under Unix. I have the TU58 User Manual, and it could be used as an example on how to write a PERFECT manual. Clean, with all the hardware specs, and also Pascal pseudocode on how to drive the TU58 :-) If you are wondering what I'm doing with the TU58, well, I use it (under M$-DOS, now) to program an industrial machine (sorry, don't know the english term for it). Thanks for your reply, Marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message